2012 Summer Paralympics

Brad Snyder, a former Navy swim team captain who was blinded in Afghanistan in 2011, set an American record in the S11 100 backstroke and shared the silver medal on the second day of competition at the Paralympics on Friday in Rio de Janeiro. Snyder, who lives in Canton and trains with coach Brian Loeffler at Loyola Maryland, finished in 1 minute, 8.28 seconds, tying Poland's Wojciech Makowski. Ukraine's Dmytro Zalevskyi won in 1:06.66. The previous American record of 1:09.23 was set by John Morgan 24 years earlier to the day. Snyder, a freestyle specialist, will compete today in the 400 free, where...

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Brad Snyder, a former Navy swim team captain who was blinded in Afghanistan in 2011, set an American record in the S11 100 backstroke and shared the silver medal on the second day of competition at the Paralympics on Friday in Rio de Janeiro. Snyder,...

U.S. wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden was aiming to win seven gold medals at the Rio Paralympics, in every event from the 100 meters to the marathon.
Her bid for the unprecedented feat didn't make it past her first final, in the 100.
Liu Wenjun of...

Aaron Peirsol held up one of the five gold medals he has won as an Olympic swimmer, an impressive sight for the Bel Air Athletic Club youth swimmers he was talking to Saturday, but he stressed the medal means very little if the young athletes do not...

Wheelchair marathoner Tatyana McFadden of Clarksville won the ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete with a Disability on Thursday night, the first such honor for the Atholton graduate.
McFadden has been nominated for the honor six times. Paralympic...

Maryland junior center Brionna Jones (Aberdeen) won the gold medal with USA Basketball at the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea. This marked Jones' first appearance with USA Basketball. Team USA went 6-0 in the tournament and beat Canada,...

Brad Snyder and Jessica Long of Baltimore won titles on the first day of competition at the IPC Swimming World Championships on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland.
Snyder, a U.S. co-captain, secured his first world championship with a time of 56.78 seconds in...

Becca Meyers on Thursday became the second Baltimore-area swimmer in two days to break a world record at the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships in Pasadena, Calif.
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Ian Silverman was thrilled to compete in the USA Swimming Junior National Championships and the Paralympic Pan Pacific Games in California this month.
Soon, swimming in California will be an everyday thing for the Rogers Forge resident.
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On a bicycle built just for him, 28-year-old Rob Jones rode into the parking lot of Chapelgate Christian Academy in Marriottsville on Thursday to the cheers of the student body and the family and friends who came to see him.
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ESPY Awards
Michael Phelps, Jessica Long among winners
Michael Phelps won two ESPY Awards on Wednesday night at the annual ceremony in Los Angeles, topping the "Best Male Olympian" and "Best Record Breaking Performance" categories, and Jessica Long took...

Coaching and being heavily involved with the United States Paralympic team has given Andrew Barranco the opportunity to travel to a dozen countries all over the world.
Beginning August 12, he'll be a team leader for the U.S. Paralympic Team, in Montreal,...

Hello, Midshipmen! (Applause.) Well, thank you, Governor O'Malley, for your kind introduction and the great support that Maryland gives this Academy. To Secretary Mabus, Admiral Greenert, General Paxton -- thank you all for your incredible leadership of...

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Navy Lt. Brad Snyder holds the acoustic guitar in his arms for the first time, strums a few chords, then moves into a sampling of Neil Young.The sounds take the Naval Academy graduate back to the nights when he was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and sat...

Jessica Long will tell you: After capturing even more Paralympic gold in London, she couldn't wait to get back to Baltimore for a table heavy with steamed crabs and a pint of Ben & Jerry's.
But these days, Long's reality is a touch more glamorous.
You...

Fresh off a dominating performance in the London Paralympics, swimmer Jessica Long on Tuesday morning shared stories of her decorated career with fifth-graders at Pinewood Elementary School in Timonium as part of their unit on overcoming obstacles."We...

Tatyana McFadden looked up at the crowd and couldn't help tearing up.She had dreamed about what that first Paralympic gold medal might feel like, played the moment out countless times in her head. Yet, listening to the roars of the sold-out crowd of...